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Alliance provides flexible financing for organizations interested in acquiring the company’s water and wastewater transport and treatment solutions.

I have has a mini-struggle getting my computer back to Windows 7. I trans-graded to Windows 10 on one of my home computers, only to find that it would no-longer communicate via its Wi-Fi adaptor. Rather than fiddle around with it then and there, I left it. The other night, I was looking for something …

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Mentor Graphics has announced in the run-up to the Electronica exhibition that it will buy Galaxy Semiconductor, defect reduction software for the semiconductor industry. According to the EDA company, Galaxy’s test data analysis tools can be used for maximising device yields, improving test quality and reducing DPM (defects per million) in semiconductor production. Joe Sawicki, general manager of Mentor …

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Silicon IP developer Ceva has come up with a slimline processor core that is optimised for running mobile baseband processing in  low data rate industrial and consumer loT devices. The CEVA-X1 IoT processor deploys a single-core processor plus DSP architecture which has been designed for implementing the latest LTE Cat-M1 (formerly eMTC) and Cat-NB1 (formerly NB-IoT) standards as well as future FeMTC …

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Goepel Electronic will use next month’s Electronica exhibition in Munich to present a 2D/3D camera module for optically inspecting PCBs and ball grid-array chip packages. 3-D imaging is now making its impact on automated optical inspection (AOI) and the key feature, says Goepel, is providing shadow-free 3D measurement. What it has done with the 3D·ViewZ module is …

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If you want to accelerate SoCs using FPGA cores you can pay $16.7 billion for an FPGA company – as Intel did. Or you could license an FPGA core from Achronix. What’s more, while Intel is putting Altera dies into dual-die packages containing a Xeon die and an FPGA die – while saying it “eventually” …

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Passive microwave PCB probes can equal active probes at far lower cost, is the claim of UK scope maker Pico Technology as it showed its new range of 9GHz probes at European Microwave Week in London. Called the PicoConnect 900 Series, it contains a range of probes, including 4GHz versions (see below). All have typically …

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The technology sector has a problem with recruitment. It needs the creative design skills of women engineers, but it is not dong the right things to attract them. Not only is the tech sector failing to make engineering more appealing as a career to women graduates. It is not offering them the salaries they deserve. …

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Achronix makes FPGA cores available for the FPGA acceleration of SoCs.

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